I put up a post on my tech flavored site about this and am
considering putting the same on my personal one as well or at
least a reference to it. I'm looking at other avenues in which
to post this temporary fix as well so if you know of any off
the top of your head let me know or perhaps get the word out
yourself as well.
On 7/17/2009 12:24 PM, Michael Tacelosky wrote:
This install procedure is fine (well, not really) for developers, but
how about the poor users that automatically upgrade to FF 3.5.1?
Why can't Google test against Release Candidates? The message posted
here before was absurd, something along the lines of "We don't test
against release candidates because then if something changes, we'll
have to alter our code, so we wait until it's released." (I'm
paraphrasing, but that was the gist, I think).
I'm a huge fan of Gears, I think it's one of the most underpromoted
tools of the Internet, and with the ability to run full web
applications offline, it's ideal for smart phone apps. I have it
enabled for my Google tools, Wordpress Admin, and one of our websites.
But a couple of things are shaking my faith in Gears.
The blog hasn't been updated in a long time (the last entry reads
"Gears 0.5.21.0 Released, May 28, 2009 Posted by Ian Fette, Gears Team
In conjunction with Google I/O we're releasing a new version of Gears,
0.5.21.0....)
The featured Articles on the developers page shows articles from 2007.
Some of those articles reference tools and sites that no longer
exist.
And of course ignoring a major Firefox release. Well, not ignoring
it, just not making it a priority, and ignoring the developer
community by not saying anything. How about a message on the blog
saying "We're working on it"? That would go a long way toward
restoring my confidence that I'm not betting on a dying technology.
I can't believe technology this amazing looks like it's withering on the vine.
Tac
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Kirk M<[email protected]> wrote:
It actually is, after a fashion. You can either install the Nightly Tester
Tools extension via the Add-on Manager and use the "Override all
compatibility" button to re-enable Gears (tested this myself...works fine)
or Go into “about:config” and set *extensions.checkCompatibility* to *False*
and restart the browser (this also works just fine). Just remember to set it
back to *True* when Gears is finally updated. Forgetting to do this may
cause a bit of future havoc if you happen to install an extension that’s
/not/ actually compatible.
On 07/17/2009 11:20 AM, NHLfan wrote:
Ok, Firefox 3.5.1 released, and gears is not compatible with that
version...
the same game...
On 14 Jul., 21:51, Kirk M<[email protected]> wrote:
For official builds and if you're using Windows you have to uninstall
Gears using Windows Add/Remove Programs in XP (Vista and Windows 7 call
it something else but it serves the same function). For the developer's
build (0.5.25.0) of Gears that was recently offered on this Group, it
can be installed via Firefox's Add-ons Manager. For Ubuntu or other
Linux distro, Gears is also uninstalled via Firefox's Add-on Manager.
On 7/14/2009 3:15 PM, Michael Tacelosky wrote:
How do you un-install the previous version?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Kirk M<[email protected]> wrote:
If you previously installed any of the developer builds of Gears that
has
been offered on this Group of late (version 0.5.25.0) or you have a
later
version that's incompatible installed it has to be uninstalled first
before
you'll see the installer (version 0.5.29.0) on the Google Gears home
page.
Otherwise it just re-installs your current version or no version at
all. I
assume of course that you're talking about the installer on the Google
Gears
home page?
On 7/14/2009 2:51 PM, gription wrote:
Am I being taken for a ride here? I'm not seeing the installer?
On Jul 13, 8:56 pm, Luka<[email protected]> wrote:
Support for Firefox 3.5 is now available. Just go
tohttp://gears.google.com/
!
On Jun 30, 11:57 pm, tfreitas<[email protected]> wrote:
please people, patience
On Jun 30, 11:12 pm, Explorer5<[email protected]> wrote:
Or imagine if Google put out a new version of Chrome and Gears
didn't
work... Sounds to me like Google is trying to do what it can to
push
users to Chrome. The fact that they claim they'd have to do an
update
for ever RC is ridiculous, the whole point of an RC's is that its
practically feature complete and its to check for last minute bugs.
I
cant picture each RC being so different that they'd have to do some
major code re-writing.
On Jun 30, 10:57 am, Garret<[email protected]> wrote:
I just upgraded to the official Firefox 3.5, and Google Gears was
disabled. Can you imagine of upgrading to Firefox 3.5 disabled
Flash?
Not a good step, Google.
Garret
On Jun 29, 7:13 pm, Jon<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the response Aaron. Previous advice from Google in
searching this thread was that you updated for the RC.
It's good to know we'll have it soon. It looks like final
release of
Firefox 3.5 is due in the next day or so.
On Jun 30, 2:30 am, Aaron Boodman<[email protected]> wrote:
We're working on pushing out a new Gears version that support FF
3.5.
We typically wait until the official "gold" release of Firefox
is
pushed, because otherwise, we keep having to do new builds
everytime
a
new RC is pushed.
- a (Google)
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Jon<[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm starting to think we may see a new version of the Google
Apps
suite (Docs, Gmail, etc) that support Gears supporting HTML 5
rather
than a Gears release for a HTML 5 capable browser.
It would still be nice to get some official word from Google on
what
the plan is here though.
